In addition to the report below and after a day of trial'n'error,
predominantly with the test repos:
Stopping Apache, recovering the repos, starting Apache gives
access back for some time. Normal LAN traffic is unaffected.
However, recovering only works when the removed logfiles (--only-
unused) are restored from backup before.
svnadmin lstxns revealed a couple of pending transactions,
supposedly from failed commits, both in the production repos as in
the test repos not used for about two weeks. I removed these with
svnadmin rmtxns.
But the problem persists: after some time I cannot access the
repos anymore, nor the server per browser at all (http://servername
times out). Doing ping shows the machine is alive, turning off the
firewall makes no difference. Here's the output:
C:\>ping dim4300
Ping Dim4300 [192.168.0.3] mit 32 Bytes Daten:
Antwort von 192.168.0.3: Bytes=32 Zeit=100ms TTL=128
Antwort von 192.168.0.3: Bytes=32 Zeit<10ms TTL=128
Antwort von 192.168.0.3: Bytes=32 Zeit<10ms TTL=128
Antwort von 192.168.0.3: Bytes=32 Zeit<10ms TTL=128
Ping-Statistik for 192.168.0.3:
Packets: sent = 4, received = 4, lost = 0 (0% loss),
Ca. Zeitangaben in Millisek.:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 100ms, Mittelwert = 25ms
C:\>svn ls http://dim4300/svn/repos/trunk/internet/Marine
svn: RA layer request failed
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/repos/trunk/internet/Marine'
svn: PROPFIND of '/svn/repos/trunk/internet/Marine': could not connect to server
(http://dim4300)
C:\>
Since this happens with both repos which are accessed thruogh
different Apache servers, one of about 130MB, the other 80MB it
looks unlikely that it is related to size or my recent commit of 4500
files which went to the production repos only. But it seems to be
related somehow to removing obsolete logfiles.
System W2K, SVN .27, Apache 2.0.47 (there was no SVN .28 for
Windows, when .29 came I was too busy to trouble myself with the
schema change, when through the work .30 was around the corner
already, but now I am reluctant to upgrade a system that
fundamentally stopped working).
BTW I am amazed that just checking for updates (with TSVN)
produces about 50 logfiles!
Jan hendrik
> Hi all out there!
>
> A strange coincidence:
>
> some hours after a huge commit I could not access the production repos
> anymore (via Apache) and I had to stop and start Apache (restart would
> not do). Before starting I did svnadmin recover. On the time of the
> repos request the user of the SVN server machine got a Windows message
> about lacking virtual memory.
>
> The next day this repeated. Looking deeper into it I found that
> Apache did not respond at all. That is, server/manual timed out, too.
>
> Still thinking this were an Apache issue of some sort I was much
> surprised to find that except for the virtual memory message I had the
> same problem on my own machine accessing a local test repos via my own
> local Apache server. I had not done so for about a fortnight, but
> Apache always run quietly in the background.
>
> However, Sep. 7 I had run
>
> svnadmin lsdblogs --only-unused | xargs rm
>
> on it. And the same command after the commit to the other
> machine with the production repos.
>
> Going further back to my first steps with SVN before setting up
> Apache I had this with the first repos and file:/// access, too. That
> was with SVN .25. Checking out per file:///repos is impossible now
> again, the command hangs and finally times out. Looks like the repos
> does like to have *all* its logs around, even those reported to be no
> longer in use.
>
> Moving log files back into the db folder from a backup did not help
> though.
>
> Running SVN .27, Apache 2.0.47, Win2K SP2.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Jan Hendrik
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